Adjustable plow-shovel



(No Model.)

A. B. ROOT 82: J. P.-YOUTZ. ADJUSTABLE PLOW SHO'VEL.

No. 357,788. Patented Feb. '15, 1887.

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AMOS B. BOOT AND JAMES F. YOUTZ, OF MOUNT JOY, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADJ USTABLE PLOW SH OVEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,788, dated February 15, 1887.

Application filed February 12, 1886. Serial No. 191,768. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, Amos 13. R001 and JAMES F. YOUTZ, of Mount Joy, in the county. of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Adjustable Plow-Shovel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention will first be described, and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a view of a portion of a cultivator provided with our improved adjustable shovel, the bracket of the forward standard, however, being shown in connection with an ordinary bull-tongue shovel. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the lower portion of the standard. Fig. Sis a view of the shovel-supporting bracket", the lower portion of the same being shown in section. Fig. 4 is a face view of the bracket. Fig. is a plan viewot' the same. Fig. 6 is a face view of a pillow-block placed upon theiace of the bracket when said bracket is used to support the bull-tongue shovel, and Fig. '7 is a view in vertical section of the said pillow-block.

In the drawings, A represents the frame of an ordinary form of cultivator, and B one of the side beams of such frame, to which beam there aresecured the standards 0 and D, the main connection between the parts being made by means of a pivot-bolt, a, and an adj ustingbolt, a, which is passed through one of the apertures i 'l at the forward end of the standard. The lower ends of the standards are socketed at b to receive the thimble E, the lower edge of which is provided with teeth dd. \Vithin the socket of this thimble there is fitted the shank e of the bracket F, to which the shovel G is bolted, a groove, f, being formed near the upper end of the shank 0, so that when the shank is inserted within the socket it may be held in place by a set-screw, H, which passes through the threaded socket formed in the side of the standard and also through the aperture formed in the thiinble E. Just at the foot of the shank ethere is a catch tooth or lug, 9, arranged to enter the spaces between the teeth (Z, which teeth, as before stated, extend around the lower edge of the thiinble E, so that when the shank e is inserted within the socket of the thinible E and turned to the required angle it will be securely held in position, the union between the parts being practically rigid.

In certain cases it is desirable that the broad-faced shovels G should be removed and a vertical form of bull-tongue shovel substituted therefor; but at this time it is desirable that the lower edge, a, should be tilted forward, so that alter removing the shovel G, I

prefer to introduce a pillow-block, M, between the bracket F and the shovel N, said pillowblock being much thicker at its lower than at its upper edge, being provided with a lug, k, arranged to enter the lower bolt hole of Ihe bracket or shovel N, and being secured and held in position by a bolt, Z,- as shown in Fig. l. I Although I have illustrated and described a standard the lower end of which was socketed to receive a tooth-edged thinible, it will of course be understood that the thiinble might be omitted and the teeth 01 (Z formed upon the lower edge of the standard itself.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The curved standard having a pivot and adjustingapertures at its upper end and the vertical socket at its lower end, the transverse screw H, extending into said socket, and the bracket F, formed with the vertical shank 0, having the annular grooveinto which the setscrew enters to hold said shank from horizontal or vertical movement, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination,with the standard havingthe vertical socket Z) in its lower end, the thiinble E, having a flange resting against the socketed end of the standard and having serra tions d. and the horizontal set-screw passed through the walls of the socket and the thinr ble, of the bracket F, formed with a vertical shank, e, entering the socket and having an annular groove, f, to receive the end of the set-screw, and a teeth, 9, at the base of the shank to engage the serrated flange of the thimble, substantially as set forth.

AMOS B. ROOT. JAMES F. YOU'IZ.

Witnesses:

J. R. FITZGERALD, ADAM F. Room. 

